Providing for Consideration of H.R. 2346, Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009
Floor Speech
PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 2346, SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2009 -- (House of Representatives - May 14, 2009)
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Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky. I thank my distinguished colleague for yielding.
Mr. Speaker, the border war, if you want to call it that--the war on the border with Mexico--now is more than trying to stop illegal aliens from coming across. It is trying to prevent the flood of drugs coming across and, more importantly, to keep trying to prevent the spillover of the violence between the drug cartels in Mexico competing and fighting for the control of that trade into the U.S. from these drugs and violence from spilling over into the U.S.
Ninety percent of the cocaine coming into this country comes through Mexico, comes across that border. And no wonder the drug cartels in Mexico are warring with each other and the government in Mexico to control that
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trade, because there are billions and billions of dollars involved. But already, those drug cartels have infiltrated most of the American cities. Most of the large cities in this country have cells or pieces of that drug cartel organization now in their communities. You read about killings and murders and hostage-taking in places like Birmingham and Atlanta and Chicago and New York--and of course Phoenix--and all of the cities of the West. They're here now.
This bill doesn't contain one penny for the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms organization. All of the law enforcement groups in this country are shut out in this bill, and this rule seals it so we can't get into it. And we are ignoring, with our heads in the Cancun sand, the cartels in Mexico that are supplying our young people with their deadly poison.
And so I urge that we defeat the previous question so that we can be allowed to bring these matters to this bill. And then, failing that, I would hope that we would defeat this rule that shuts these matters out.
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